Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ce80e3e2bfad956…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 09:16:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 17bc1568c916f9f84ec7a96c0332d81c SHA-1: d9ca4bbb0879b960587ca639a9663724ae4dcc48 SHA-256: 0ce80e3e2bfad956008b7ba44fa12aefe4ca6b684049886b3143b38b7fe62071
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious content or redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure suggests it's designed to lure users into clicking links that lead to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08ada9sm5kgrkaddkdn6k2mm2j/28389688397.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6c6cd16b30---34328205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c689f0066---vikoniruxolupogubivur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jjfvbjhnteaod2p99f19c6hu02/77546871296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/xididu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl1971.com/clients/5/51/517263f0417f9379c67e6eba0e0bdfe8/File/53525280290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/87780078664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65c5a3dd1b27404f3a304870cf8e6b3b/11641771929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b34dukr4it40k5v83cgth4bem/13180170664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc8d65d734---xawizixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210521185032_u0gez0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609319cbc6a4b---sekuganori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/71646608082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba3227ae709---laxeruwafixabusarizuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/86628625260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.info/files/file/93959603984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9b45a7a4a---piwubajizogupezojusenupes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/wegeriwosanenodubafotapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/80230415760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/41089920986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/93095472806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbconsulting112.ca/userfiles/files/toziwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a6b8781ee---niwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/90982168793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d251e44ca5e---83980981217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=subcategories+of+proteinsPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB86 10924 bytes
SHA-256: d0bcb7200d21b3c8c28af86960d6759886fadeffd2be4b58b6d5c4ecdc11eb21
font_01_sfnt_off000114c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012cd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CD4 17344 bytes
SHA-256: a867911454acc7ff731383ed0eb12ab058242032b09d5498d9c2b74a37be96ff